On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 04:51:50PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > It seems that CDs/DVDs seem to lose single blocks, while flash (sticks, > > etc) seem to fail catastrophically, in my experience at least. > > yes indeed, unless those few blocks are part of a tar file :) Hm. Now there would be some utility for an error-correcting encoder as easy to use as gzip. Perusing the debian repos I do see some libraries made for that (reed-solomon and friends). Cheers -- t
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